"Engage" Sometimes I find it hard to engage with my players. Sometimes I find it hard to engage with a setting as a player.It happens. But I'm actively trying to do better at both.With the pandemic happening, I'm taking some online training to upskill a little for work. Mostly it's public speaking and interview skills … Continue reading Late to the party: RPGaDay 2019 prompt 3
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Late to the party: RPGaDay 2019 prompt 2
"Unique" I try to do something unique with each of my settings. Of course, eventually it's obvious that nothing you do is really unique, and it's all been done.But the operative word above is 'try'. The Old Crown started as a setting for 4e D&D, and it's morphed through FATE and could probably be run … Continue reading Late to the party: RPGaDay 2019 prompt 2
Planescape IV – draft rules for Factions part 2 – Doomguard
Time for one of the longest posts I've written! OK, so let's design some new Faction rules.We'll start with a look at the Doomguard, because I think this one is pretty easy - when we look at the rules from the Planescape Boxed set anyway. Eligibility: All races and alignments accepted - but not clerics … Continue reading Planescape IV – draft rules for Factions part 2 – Doomguard
Planescape III – draft rules for Factions part 1
The Factions are a huge part of the Planescape setting, but fitting them into the 5e rules is more difficult. One option we can go for is renown, as detailed on p.23 Of the Dungeon Master's Guide.The examples for renown focus on the group's available in the Forgotten Realms, and there's only five of those. … Continue reading Planescape III – draft rules for Factions part 1
Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Invasion from the Netherverse
High school. Jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, outcasts. Study for the test, write essays, detention.Oh, and monsters walking the streets at night. It all started with some of the kids having fun and messing with an old book they found in grandma’s attic. Soon enough, someone says ‘Klaatu Barada Nantucket’ and we lose our job at the … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Invasion from the Netherverse
Loge escapes from the Astral Plane
It's unofficial as I didn't play it, but here's an overview of how I would have run the adventure to the close.As I said previously, I came up with this over the course of a couple of hours really, with a focus on trying to finish out the adventure only, and still left some loose … Continue reading Loge escapes from the Astral Plane
Planescape II – Stealing low-level adventures
Apologies everyone, my new website appears to have already blown a gasket! After three attempts to write this post, it’s now removed all the previous content and replaced it with a draft post I have set up, and I really REALLY don’t know why. So now I have to RE-WRITE the entire post for a … Continue reading Planescape II – Stealing low-level adventures
First post on the new site
Well, here we are. I’ve been toying with the idea of moving stuff to a new address for a while now. Actually try and engage with a more professional look than the WordPress free account can give me. So why the move now? Well, everyone is trying new things during the global pandemic and lockdown.I’d … Continue reading First post on the new site
Loge is revived
There's a lot to cover with this one, as I've mentioned previously.I started writing this in October/November and kept updating my notes, but following the death of the DM at Christmas, I haven't had the heart to finish it. I stopped keeping up with the notes at that point too - a switch to a … Continue reading Loge is revived
Not quite a new idea – Planescape
So I'm starting to get withdrawal from my Planescape game. I always wanted to play a game in the setting, and it was a really enjoyable experience. I have a whole host of other settings that I could run a game in, but I think I'd really like to run a planar game now, with … Continue reading Not quite a new idea – Planescape
Draft One Page Campaign Opener – FATEPunk
"A corporate state in the Pacific successfully built a space elevator, and now a thriving country based around global trade of imported resources from space and a highly educated workforce. Mexico, The Western Republic and Independent Texas lead a group of South and Central American states in a further construction effort, aided by the New … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign Opener – FATEPunk
Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Hollow World
Within the Hollow World, vast continents and seas are the home of great empires, crumbling ruins, forgotten masters and wise scholars. The ancient Pillars of Heaven hold the Sun high in the centre of the Hollow World, basking all the surface in the slowly blinking light. To scale the Pillars of Heaven is an almost … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Hollow World
Draft One Page Campaign opener – Sky Island Saga
Almost a thousand years ago, conflict between the Gods of Light and the Gods of Darkness tore the world asunder. Legends speak of the time before this event, when all of the world was held together beneath one sky, and power of flight was a dream to most races.Now the world a great stretch of … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign opener – Sky Island Saga
Draft One Page Campaign Opener – The Sprawl
Once distant, separate settlements near the last oases in the World Desert, the Sprawl is now a huge mess of streets, avenues and boulevards carved from the blasted rocks and sands.The Sprawl is a city that would take weeks to walk across, home to fantastic races, the Guilds, and the Inquisition. Most folk make do, … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign Opener – The Sprawl
New Idea – Sky Island Saga
OK, so I know I said I was going back to work on old ideas, but this has been rattling around recently. So, a thousand years ago a war between the gods of light and dark shattered a world, and now it exists only as islands drifting around on various levels. The upper levels still … Continue reading New Idea – Sky Island Saga
New Idea – One Shot – Lost Brother
So, I've got the idea of a one shot forming, just trying to work out some of the details. Players take on the role of one of six brothers, on a rescue mission to save the seventh.He's been taken prisoner by a Prince, who is blaming him for a crime he didn't commit. He's due … Continue reading New Idea – One Shot – Lost Brother
Draft One Page Campaign Opener – The Endless Sea
The shining Aetherium saltwaters of the Endless Sea are a nexus for lost seafarers, washed away in storms, trapped in long calms, and turned around by thick fogs.Finding oneself in the endless sea is the easy part of course. No one is known to leave the waters, at least alive. The islands of the Endless … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign Opener – The Endless Sea
Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Ostromarka
Legend says the Wastes were created in only one night, when arcane rituals and dead gods warred over those lands once known as the Satrapies.Today, the far eastern edge of the Empire is the Ostromarka, the last part of civilisation before the demon-infested Wastes, eager to swallow up the brave and the stupid. The city … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Ostromarka
Loge’s patron comes calling
Loge has a terrible dream. He's in a temple, surrounded by snake men, and they're killing his friends, and then there's an icy cold blast in a dark void, but luckily he wakes up here, safe and sound. In the stone circle. In the snow, and fir trees. The place he sometimes goes when he's... … Continue reading Loge’s patron comes calling
Loge does not survive
Yep, that's the title I'm going with. So we're cornered in a room and there's various nasties outside. They're in the way of us leaving the temple on foot, though we could fall back to a higher level.So that's the plan. Attempt parley or run. Parley doesn't really work. So everyone starts to run, out … Continue reading Loge does not survive
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